Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Job 3

• About the title: Job asks “Why? God, Why?”

Job Deplores His Birth

Job 3:¹ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ² And Job spoke (Lit. answered), and said:

Job 3:³ “May the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’

Job 3:⁴ May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.

Job 3:⁵ May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 3:⁶ As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not rejoice (be joined) among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.

• Verse 3 ►🙂Humor: Job must have been born on February 30th. There is no February 30th, so it must have perished from the calendar. ◄ However, there is nothing humorous about Job’s suffering or man’s suffering.

Job 3:⁷ Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!

Job 3:⁸ May those curse it who curse the day,
Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.

• Leviathan is Satan, the sea monster that lives in the sea of people. He gets excited when people curse. It invites Satan and his demons into your life.

• See Topic: Satan as the Leviathan

Job 3:⁹ May the stars of its morning be dark;
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the dawning (eyelids of the dawn) of the day;

Job 3:¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

• Jeremiah also cursed the day he was born.
  Jeremiah 20:¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
• A “womb” is a closed chamber until it gives birth.

Job 3:¹¹ “Why did I not die at birth?
Why did I not perish (expire) when I came from the womb?

• ►😔Sad: Job wanted his birth to be a “womb tomb”.◄

Job 3:¹² Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

• A sad miscarriage of life…

Job 3:¹³ For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest

Job 3:¹⁴ With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built ruins for themselves,

• Life is exhausting. Man gathers for himself riches so that he can purchase the world, so that other men admire him, so that he can lift himself up to places of power, so that he can make the rules, so that he can get more money, so that he can live in fear of others taking everything he gathered, so that he can die while corruption swallows his riches and his memory fades into the desert….This is the bottomless pit. Man dies in the grave he created.
  The living tear down the ruins he built, so that they can build bigger and better.
  

Job 3:¹⁵ Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;

Life is the most valuable resource God has given man. Spend it wisely…

Ezekiel 7:19
‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the Lord; They will not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him (the rich, young ruler), “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

Job 3:¹⁶ Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

Job 3:¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the weary (Lit. weary of strength) are at rest.

Job 3:¹⁸ There the prisoners rest (are at ease) together;
They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Job 3:¹⁹ The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.

Job 3:²⁰ “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 3:²¹ Who long (Lit. wait) for death, but it does not come,
And search for it more than hidden treasures;

Job 3:²² Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad when they can find the grave?

Job 3:²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?

Job 3:²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat (Lit. my bread),
And my groanings pour out like water.

Job 3:²⁵ For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,
And what I dreaded has happened to me.

Job 3:²⁶ I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, for trouble comes.”

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